¡UNO! Album

[TheGrouch33]

ok here is my review. before i start i have to say again: if they would have recorded it differently with louder distorted guitars, louder bass and everything faster probably every song would get 1 point more.

1) Nuclear Family - 5/10- this track is ok and has potential. but please compare it to similiar riffs like stuck with me or safe european home from the clash. there is so much more energy. nuclear family feels just insignificant and boring like most of the song on this album.

2) Stay the Night - 7/10 - is one of their best on uno. its catchy and a bit more ambitious than most of the other tracks. but if you are honest and listen to older green day songs afterwards, this still would have been just an average good track on EVERY green day album.

3) Carpe Diem - 4/10 - the first i fought the law ripp off. and there are 3 of them which shows all the uncreativity. but i fought the law has some quality, so even the worst ripp off cant be that bad. perfect example btw for the lack of power and energy in the songs of uno.

4) Let yourself go - 8/10 best song! its just standard green day pop punk songwriting, but on a good level. love the 1039/smoothed out slappy hours solo style. it nothing new, but green are doing what they can do the best. live version is better. (like every live version of uno songs)

5) Kill the Dj - 7/10 - next clash "influenced" song. other words for copying the magnificients seven riff one to one. but as i love magnificient seven, this is still good. one of the better lyrics and the unusual green day song on uno.

6) Fell for You - 3/10 - ok first song were the lyrics get really terrible. music sounds a lot like a warning song, but even less energy. warning had its accoustic sound, which added a refreshing element to green days songs. but here again its just clean boring electric guitars... (next i fought the law reference)

7) Loss of controll - 5/10 - starts good, verse is ok, has a kind of insomniac/dookie theme and also musically similiaritys. chorus is terrible pseudo the who and if you compare it to some insomniac or dookie songs it loses so clearly... solo is good though.

8) Troublemaker - 0/10 - ??? lyrics which are emberassing terrible. music is the low point of the album aswell.

9) Angel Blue - 3/10 - starts good and is the third i fought the law reference. chorus sounds like a very weak 21st century bd track.

10) Sweet 16 - 4/10 - melody sounds a bit like a 1039/smoothed out slappy hours sounds. if they would have recorded it with the same energy as this album it could have been a good track. so its just another standard pop song.

11) Rusty James - 4/10 - copying scattered. if i compare both songs, this is just mh ok... everything on this album sounds like made for the radio.

12) Oh love - 3/10 its been said enough about this one...

iUNO! - 4/10 -> in rolling stone terms i would give 2/5

worst green day album ever.

if you care:

1) 1039/Smouthed out slappy hours - 9/10

2) Insomniac - 9/10

3) Dookie - 8/10

4) Nimrod - 7,5/10

5) Kerplunk -7,5/10

6) American Idiot - 6,5/10

7) Warning - 6,5/10

8) 21st century breakdown - 5/10

9) UNO - 4/10

wow cant disagree more with you in pretty much everything, i really stopped taking your review seriously when i saw you gave 1039 smooth a 9/10 (waaaaaay to high in my opinion)

[DTH]

wow cant disagree more with you in pretty much everything, i really stopped taking your review seriously when i saw you gave 1039 smooth a 9/10 (waaaaaay to high in my opinion)

i take every opinion here seriously. i just thin "oh this guy has a completly different taste, interesting".

[Guest]

wow cant disagree more with you in pretty much everything, i really stopped taking your review seriously when i saw you gave 1039 smooth a 9/10 (waaaaaay to high in my opinion)

The great thing about opinions is that everyone has one, and they're all worth roughly the same pile of shit in the corner.

Also, I happen to think 1039, Kerplunk and Dookie are three of GD's best albums. I know plenty here who disagree, particularly on 1039.

[JDookie]

I wanted to wait, but after reflected I thought it was better to hear it

Sooo beautiful. While listening to Rusty James, I wanted to hug Billie Joe, Mike, Tre and Jason, kiss them, congratulate with them and say thank you thank you thank you

I knew I'd have loved that song

[dookmeister333]

Angel blue in my opinion is by far the best song on uno...cant stop repeating it hahah...cant wait til i see them playing this album live gonna be fucking EPIC!!

[Dori_Epiphone]

Can´t wait to have the CDbook of iUNO! and I´m a little bit more excited for the DVD then for iDOS! (because I don´t think I will like iDOS! as much as iUNO! and iTRÉ!)

[Its Taylor :D]

Reminds me of Nimrod kind of, although Carpe Diem kind of reminds of 21st Century.

Rusty James is by far my favorite song off this album.

[green day is]

Here's that interview, if anyone is interested: http://haushinka.w.i....pl/wywiady.htm

We probably should've named it something else, like World Vs. World

Holy shit so that's where that name came from

Who the fuck can I tell about this

I love that song from the early 90's so much, this is such a revelation.

[21stcenturyidiot]

Fuck me, this is a good album. Not quite as strong as American Idiot but it's just bloody good y'know.

[!]

Beautiful! I think we can extend this further in anticipation of the "party from hell" that iDos! is setting up to be. Speaking from the perspective of another Billie Joe Armstrong-aged geezer, growing old is indeed a huge theme here -- I think it permeates all 12 songs on the album, even the curmudgeonly Kill the DJ (which, as I've mentioned before, I anticipate is going to get turned on its head in Nightlife next album). It revisits two questions from Nimrod from a new perspective: What happens when you get too old to be punk anymore (The Grouch); and what happens when "I Love You" just isn't enough (Redundant)? At the end of iUno!, Oh Love ratchets that tension up to the breaking point. Our nameless narrator is in the throes of a midlife crisis -- introspective, alone, deserted by friends and feeling abandoned by even the loved ones he's currently in timeworn relationships with, reminiscing about friends and lovers long gone, and feeling like there's still gotta be something better out there -- the urge to break free from it all, consequences be damned, and go exploring some deep, dark thrills just because he can (blowing up his Nuclear Family in a "bad comedy" of errors is fine and dandy just so long as there's a slice of the action in it for him!) His heart's on the loose, alright, and it's ready to unload -- right into iDos!.

Maybe I need to listen to it again, but I dont see growing old playing that "Huge" of a theme on the album. The only song I recall of that dealt with growing old was Rusty James, and I guess sweet 16 to some extent. I would like to hear a follow up to I was there though now that they're in their 40's though.

[uhleckseee]

Maybe I need to listen to it again, but I dont see growing old playing that "Huge" of a theme on the album. The only song that dealt with growing old was Rusty James, and I guess sweet 16 to some extent.

Oh Love is all about not wanting life to pass by. Nuclear Family is the breakdown of the Nuclear Family as time goes by. Stay the Night is all about knowing that nothing's permanent and to just soak in the moment before it's gone. Time goes on and the perspectives change as we age. I think that's where we're talking about growing old and maturing. It's more of a general theme of the album rather than each song's topic, y'know?

[!]

Oh Love is all about not wanting life to pass by. Nuclear Family is the breakdown of the Nuclear Family as time goes by. Stay the Night is all about knowing that nothing's permanent and to just soak in the moment before it's gone. Time goes on and the perspectives change as we age. I think that's where we're talking about growing old and maturing. It's more of a general theme of the album rather than each song's topic, y'know?

Oh ok, I see what you mean. I definitely got the whole living life at the moment from Oh Love, and I need to listen to stay the night a few more times because I didn't like it at first, but it's growing on me

[Homero]

[quote name=Its Taylor ' timestamp='1348010163' post='4887217]

Reminds me of Nimrod kind of, although Carpe Diem kind of reminds of 21st Century.

Rusty James is by far my favorite song off this album.

[Jimmy the Kid]

Twenty years ago.

Yes, and how does that contradict my argument? Green Day was Punk Rock/Pop Punk, not Pop. Madonna is Pop, Taylor Swift is Pop, Lady Gaga is Pop. Green Day, nowadays, mixes Pop Punk with Power Pop, still very different from "traditional" pop music.

[WhiteTim]

Yes, and how does that contradict my argument? Green Day was Punk Rock/Pop Punk, not Pop. Madonna is Pop, Taylor Swift is Pop, Lady Gaga is Pop. Green Day, nowadays, mixes Pop Punk with Power Pop, still very different from "traditional" pop music.

Even Billie said in GW GD was never really a punk band "I dont think we ever were a punk band we've always cared about melodies"

Besides who cares they make great songs thats all that matters.

[X-Saint]

As tempting as it is, I'm not going to listen to it until I get a physical copy.

[Jimmy the Kid]

Best album since Nimrod in my opinion.

This. My rank is as it follows:

1. Dookie

2. Nimrod

3. iUno!

4. American Idiot

5. Insomniac

6. Warning

7. 21st Century Breakdown

8. Kerplunk

9. 1039

To me, the best songs on the album are:

1. Sweet 16

2. Stay the Night

3. Carpe Diem

Even Billie said in GW GD was never really a punk band "I dont think we ever were a punk band we've always cared about melodies"

Besides who cares they make great songs thats all that matters.

This. But they really made punk rock/pop punk songs. Punk has melody. Even OI! has melody. Listen to Mata-Ratos, a portuguese OI! band, as an example. Or Exploited.

[WhiteTim]

Ahhh tuesday cant come fast enough

[Schizo_Frog]

Just joined to say I love every moment of this album! Can't wait to purchase.

[mankat13]

Any one notice that Rusty James has a hint of Before the Lobotomy? Idk if anyone has said this. Mainly the verses and the solo.

Still love the song!

[Dalya]

I must say, Tre did a GREAT job making this album not as boring as it could be without his amazing drum bits...

[deathtofalsesushi]

I just love the sounds I'm hearing on this album. To my ears anyway, which are not necessarily an audiophile's or musician's ears, this is the best production on any Green Day album ever.

[*withoutadoubt*]

I find it interesting that so many people don't seem to enjoy Oh Love very much. I can understand why, but for some reason that song just got under my skin in a profound way. I was in tears the first time I heard it, and I'm sure it'll choke me up when I see it live in less than 2 weeks.

Yeah, same here. It evokes so many emotions, and I love it even more now in context with the whole album. It's even better live-Enjoy!!

[Ritz]

I'm in love with it. The solo for Troublemaker is sex to the ears, its so awesome.

[Sarahnade]

I caved and listened to it, and I'm so glad that I did. I can't wait for Tuesday so I can have this album in my hands and in my iTunes library.